| Date: | Wednesday, January 27th, 1999 |
| Time: | 7.00pm-9.00pm |
| Location: | California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1) Bay Networks |
| see directions below |
MTVJUG has completed 36 months!!
| Agenda: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 7.00 to 7.05 | - | Announcements |
| 7.05 to 8.15 | - | Jini, a network centric computing architecture |
| by Jim Waldo, Lead Architect, Jini, Consumer and Embedded Group, Sun Microsystems. | ||
| 8.30 to 8.45 | - | Q&A |
| 8.45 to 9.00 | - | Product Demos |
| (All are welcome, no membership fee, no prior reservation necessary) |
| Note: For the "Announcements" section if you have something you would like announced, or any "News" (upcoming conferences, information about similar groups, applets...etc) please send mail to (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) sudha@best.com prior to the meeting. A bulletin board would be placed for product announcements/job openings/miscellaneous announcements. |
By Jim Waldo
For the past 50 years, computers have been built around the trinity of processor, memory, and disk. This design has had a significant impact on the way we develop software, and the distinction we draw between hardware and software.
Jini is a computing architecture built around the trinity of processor, memory, and network. The difference that this makes is substantial, and is only possible because of the kinds of advances that have been made in technology such as Java over the past few years.
This talk will describe the Jini architecture and how it allows network plug-and-play, dynamic extensibility, and the erasure of the hardware/software distinction by bring true object-oriented techniques to the network. In spite of the fact that this sounds like an entry in buzzword-bingo, the technology is real; the talk may also discuss the Community Source approach Jini is taking to spread the technology in previously untried (in the commercial world) ways.
Jim Waldo is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems, where he is the lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java. Prior to Jini, Jim worked in JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he did research in the areas of object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing, and user environments.
Before to joining Sun, Jim spent eight years at Apollo Computer and Hewlett Packard working in the areas of distributed object systems, user interfaces, class libraries, text and internationalization. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first Object Request Broker, and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first OMG CORBA specification. He edited the book "The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas" (MIT Press), and was the author of the Java Advisor column in Unix Review's Performance Computing magazine.
Jim is an adjunct faculty member of Harvard University, where he teaches distributed computing in the department of computer science.
Jim received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He also holds M.A. degrees in both linguistics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Bay Networks
California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1)
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA
From 101 North - SF Area
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